This is the preferred and easiest way to use django-mailer.
To automatically switch all your mail to use django-mailer, first set EMAIL_BACKEND:
EMAIL_BACKEND = "mailer.backend.DbBackend"
If you were previously using a non-default EMAIL_BACKEND, you need to configure the MAILER_EMAIL_BACKEND setting, so that django-mailer knows how to actually send the mail:
MAILER_EMAIL_BACKEND = "your.actual.EmailBackend"
Now, just use the normal Django mail functions for sending email. These functions will store mail on a queue in the database, which must be sent as below.
If you don't want to send all email through django-mailer, you can send mail
using mailer.send_mail
, which has the same signature as Django's
send_mail
function.
You can also do the following:
# favour django-mailer but fall back to django.core.mail from django.conf import settings if "mailer" in settings.INSTALLED_APPS: from mailer import send_mail else: from django.core.mail import send_mail
and then just call send_mail like you normally would in Django:
send_mail(subject, message_body, settings.DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL, recipients)
There is also a convenience function mailer.send_html_mail
for creating HTML
(this function is not in Django):
send_html_mail(subject, message_plaintext, message_html, settings.DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL, recipients)
Additionally you can send all the admins as specified in the ADMIN
setting by calling:
mail_admins(subject, message_body)
or all managers as defined in the MANAGERS
setting by calling:
mail_managers(subject, message_body)
With mailer in your INSTALLED_APPS, there will be two new manage.py commands you can run:
send_mail
will clear the current message queue. If there are any failures, they will be marked deferred and will not be attempted again bysend_mail
.retry_deferred
will move any deferred mail back into the normal queue (so it will be attempted again on the nextsend_mail
).
You may want to set these up via cron to run regularly:
* * * * * (/path/to/your/python /path/to/your/manage.py send_mail >> ~/cron_mail.log 2>&1) 0,20,40 * * * * (/path/to/your/python /path/to/your/manage.py retry_deferred >> ~/cron_mail_deferred.log 2>&1)
For use in Pinax, for example, that might look like:
- (cd $PINAX; /usr/local/bin/python2.5 manage.py send_mail >> $PINAX/cron_mail.log 2>&1)
0,20,40 * * * * (cd $PINAX; /usr/local/bin/python2.5 manage.py retry_deferred >> $PINAX/cron_mail_deferred.log 2>&1)
This attempts to send mail every minute with a retry on failure every 20 minutes.
manage.py send_mail
uses a lock file in case clearing the queue takes
longer than the interval between calling manage.py send_mail
.
Note that if your project lives inside a virtualenv, you also have to execute this command from the virtualenv. The same, naturally, applies also if you're executing it with cron. The Pinax documentation explains that in more details.